Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory

Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory detail

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum

Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in the Conservatory

1891

ArtistPaul Cézanne

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (92.1 x 73 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object number: 61.101.2
Credit: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960

Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence

Last known price $85,000 Dealer sale · Feb 1, 1948

+608.3% vs previous observed sale

Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional

$12K1930

$12K1942

$85K1948

Last known price$85,0003 matched observed sales

Observed median$12,000

Observed sales3

Artist index708.3

1948-02-01Dealer sale$85,000.00

1942-12-31Dealer purchase$12,000.00

1930-07-26Dealer purchase$12,000.00

Artist index contextLatest public build 708.3 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked

Artwork	Sale date	House	Realized USD	Match
The Bellevue Plain, also called The Red Earth (La Plaine de Bellevue, dit aussi Les Terres Rouges) 1891 · oil paint, canvas	1932-08-24	—	$30,000.00	50%
Abandoned House near Aix-en-Provence 1886 · oil paint, canvas	1950-07-01	—	$25,000.00	49%
Abandoned House near Aix-en-Provence 1886 · oil paint, canvas	1950-03-01	—	$10,000.00	49%
Portrait de madame Cézanne 1886 · oil paint, canvas	1935-01-30	—	$13,500.00	49%
Portrait de madame Cézanne 1886 · oil paint, canvas	1934-11-01	—	$15,000.00	49%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris (until at least October 1907)

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris (until at least October 1907)

[Ambroise Vollard, Paris, by September 11, 1909–11

[Ambroise Vollard, Paris, by September 11, 1909–11

sold with another Cézanne (Rewald cat. rais. no. 729) for Fr 50,000 on April 28, 1911, to Morozov]

sold with another Cézanne (Rewald cat. rais. no. 729) for Fr 50,000 on April 28, 1911, to Morozov]

Ivan Abramovich Morozov, Moscow (1911–18)

Ivan Abramovich Morozov, Moscow (1911–18)

Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1918–33

Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1918–33

cat., 1928, no. 560

cat., 1928, no. 560

sold on May 9, 1933 through Knoedler to Clark)

sold on May 9, 1933 through Knoedler to Clark)

Source provenance text

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris (until at least October 1907); [Ambroise Vollard, Paris, by September 11, 1909–11; sold with another Cézanne (Rewald cat. rais. no. 729) for Fr 50,000 on April 28, 1911, to Morozov]; Ivan Abramovich Morozov, Moscow (1911–18); Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1918–33; cat., 1928, no. 560; sold on May 9, 1933 through Knoedler to Clark); Stephen C. Clark, New York (1933–d. 1960)

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Exhibitions

Public

Source exhibition text

$3b

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Related public works

Catalog neighbours

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Still Life with Apples and Pears

Paul Cézanne · 1891

The Bellevue Plain, also called The Red Earth (La Plaine de Bellevue, dit aussi Les Terres Rouges)

Paul Cézanne · 1891

$30,000Last sale
1932

Rocks at Fontainebleau

Paul Cézanne · 1890

The House with the Cracked Walls

Paul Cézanne · 1892

Seated Peasant

Paul Cézanne · 1892

Sourced Overview Evidence

Hortense Fiquet, a former artist’s model, met Cézanne about 1869; they had a son in 1872, fourteen years before they married. This painting, one of more than two dozen for which Hortense posed, is set in the conservatory of Jas de Bouffan, the Cézanne family estate near Aix. The unfinished canvas offers a revealing glimpse into Cézanne’s working method. He placed Madame Cézanne’s carefully modeled head slightly off-center, cradled between a lush tree and a spindly plant, and then proceeded to build up the rest of the pyramidal composition, touch by exacting touch.

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Evidence state

3 observed sales · 5 comparable sales · 8 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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